Reviews tagging 'Police brutality'

Displacement by Kiku Hughes

5 reviews

smilagros's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

5.0

“ Being in the future meant very little when my education on the past was so limited“. This is one of my favorite graphic novels of all time. I wish more people would talk about it because wow. It was beautiful illustrations and the story was not a history book even though it’s about history. I cannot recommend this graphic novel enough. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Racism, Terminal illness, War, Cancer, Deportation, Confinement, Gaslighting, Hate crime, and Xenophobia

robinks's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

I had a feeling this book would be quite sad and informative about history, but I was surprised by the incorporation of current struggles and recognition of various forms of resistance. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, Xenophobia, and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Cancer, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Gun violence, Police brutality, Deportation, War, and Excrement

courtneyfalling's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

This is probably between middle-grade and young adult as an educational and personal graphic novel, and it was beautifully and hauntingly written, spanning generational trauma, vulnerability and loss, political responsibility and survival, and ongoing histories. It packs in a lot of information and emotion about the 1940s US internment camps where Japanese Americans were forcibly incarcerated.  Kiku Hughes thanks Octavia Butler's influence and you can see the direct Kindred echoes, with how time travel and speculative elements pull out deeper, more emotional racial and political lineages. I'd 100% buy this for any middle schoolers I knew if I knew any middle schoolers. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Confinement

Moderate: Police brutality and Grief

peachani's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

Wonderful story with a twist I didn't expect. The novel does a great job of tying together the plight of Japanese-Americans and others in the US, reminding us that we must fight not only for ourselves, but for others as well.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Racism, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Cancer, Death, and Grief

Minor: Blood, Murder, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, and Violence

claravalente's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Police brutality, Racism, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Death